Word: wheelchaired
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Forty steps. Each one is a gamble: lift, lunge, tilt, then land with a stab of the foot she can't feel. The soldier who came out of Iraq on a stretcher and back to the States in a wheelchair can now, seven months later, take 40 steps by herself. Each one is a victory...
...Teflon when stuck with the blame—for finishing the ice cream, for missing a doctor’s visit, for whatever banality it was. In his last week, I am told, my grandmother used a belt as a harness to lift him from wheelchair to bed. Although his mind was failing by then—most of our family had become strangers to him, myself included; few things are more painful—he somehow retained his buck-passing jujitsu. The belt hurt his back, and he was not about to buy my grandmother’s explanation...
...women--coming off the Iraqi battlefields in stretchers tend to be young: Castro is 23, Meinen 24, and Wyatt, from Franktown, Colo., turned 21 two weeks before losing his leg. Many enlisted as a way to earn money for college and get in shape, but now they're wheelchair bound. Contrary to the old Army recruiting motto, they're not fighting to be all they can be anymore. They're fighting to be as close to normal as they...
...Crown events and an impressive 22% of his races overall. In 1986, aboard Ferdinand, he became the oldest jockey to win the Kentucky Derby. A year after giving up riding in 1990, he was paralyzed in a car accident, yet within months he was back, training horses from his wheelchair and earning $3.7 million in winnings before retiring...
...Kentucky Derby, making him the oldest jockey to ride a Derby winner. Shoemaker suffered only two major injuries in his 41-year racing career but was paralyzed in a 1991 car crash when his Ford Bronco veered off a road and rolled. He continued to train horses from a wheelchair until...